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Two PhD student positions and one postdoctoral position in Natural and Computational Logic, THE NETHERLANDS

Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS), Netherlands

The Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS) invites applications for two four-year full-time PhD positions and one two-year postdoc position, commencing June 1st, 2011:
1 PhD student in Natural Logic and Linguistic Semantics
1 PhD student in Computational Logic and Natural Reasoning
1 postdoc researcher in Natural Logic and Natural Reasoning
Individuals are encouraged to apply who have an interest in logical and computational theories of ordinary
reasoning, natural logic, and/or linguistic semantics and who want to investigate these topics in a setting
of tableau theorem proving and model checking. The positions are part of the program